Cartwheel to the Moon: My Sicilian Childhood

by Emanuel Di Pasquale

In Cartwheel to the Moon, Emanuel di Pasquale takes us to Sicily, the Mediterranean island where he was born. His beautiful, lyrical, sensitive poems recall the smell of the fig trees, the sound of the fountains, the beauty of the old villages surrounded by mountains. As X. J. Kennedy says in his foreword, These are poems that seem to reach out and grasp real things. Di Pasquale weaves words into music that stays with you.
Di Pasquale has long...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812626796
• ISBN13: 9780812626797
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cricket Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Lyrical Chiaroscuro

This poet, strongly supported by the former poetry editor of the Paris Review and winner of a prestigious poetry translation prize, deserves far greater recognition than he has so far received. A certain tender melancholy deepens the charming memories of a time and place now fading forever. The reader will surely feel what he can never see and never experience.